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Published: 25 August 2014

Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, Germany
21st August 2014
Imagine Dragons, Nico Vega & Georg auf Lieder

The weather for today was not that autumnal as expected and the sun was shining bright on the beautiful medieval masonry. With over 5,000 fans the show was sold out and the masses were waiting in front of the citadel. 5:30 PM the doors open and some of the fans ran to their places at the first row. It was a nice festival feeling because it wasn't not dark yet. There were very young people possibly because IMAGINE DRAGONS is very famous for the song ‘Radioactive’ which was also used for a TV advertisement of the computer game ‘Asssasin's Creed III’.

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Published: 21 August 2014

Airport Drispenstedt, Hildesheim, Germany
9th and 10th August 2014
M’era Luna Festival 2014 Day 1: Aeverium, Meinhard, Ignis Fatuu, Sündenklang, Henke, Chrom, The Beauty of Gemina, Rabia Sorda, Lacrimas Profundere, Solitary Experiments, Stahlmann, Neuroticfish, ASPs von Zaubererbrüdern, Das Ich, Paradise Lost, Leaether Strip, Subway to Sally, DAF, Marilyn Manson, Combichrist, Within Temptation

Like last year, too, the 15th M’era Luna was, with 25,000 visitors, sold out. And once again the organizers offered manifold fine musical acts, readings, fashion shows, a shopping mall, the medieval village with all kind of stands, actions and fun and so much more. The concerts took place on the main stage outside and in the Hangar.

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Published: 20 August 2014

Westfalenhalle 1, Dortmund, Germany
19th August 2014
Blink-182 & Zebrahead

BLINK-182 are back! After the re-union in 2009, the 6th album of US Punk Rockers, ‘Neighborhoods‘, was released in September 2011. After world-wide hits like ‘All the small Things’ or ‘I miss you’, the new album goes more a progressive way. Marc, Tom and Travis developed further and sound now much more experimental. This year, the band is playing several festivals and in-between, there are also a few concerts planned, one of them in Dortmund, where about 7,000 fans gathered to see their stars.

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Published: 19 August 2014

TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
16th August 2014
Combichrist, Aesthetic Perfection

With the release of the latest album ‘We Love You’ COMBICHRIST took another step further from the Hardcore EBM it once started with. For some it feels like the band becomes even more commercialized than before, for other it feels like a step forwards to a new sound. One thing is for sure, COMBICHRIST didn’t make another album like ‘Everybody Hates You’ or ‘We Are All Demons’, although it is as aggressive as before. But it shows more variation than all the previous work together. Now it combines EBM with punk metal, so the question remains: how will COMBICHRIST perform live. And off course: do they play live?

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Published: 14 August 2014

Backstage @Free & Easy Festival, Munich, Germany
7th August 2014
Schöngeist

About a week ago in Munich there ended the traditional Free & Easy festival and judging by its name one can guess that it’s really free and rather easy allowing people to have a good time and enjoy good music for 17 days. Yes, that sounds cool but we’d better focus on one day and even on one show to give you a brief idea what it looked like without extra useless information. So on a rainy Thursday all fans of heavy riffs, great sound and gothic atmosphere could see three different bands on one stage. VLAD IN TEARS that opened the whole thing turned out to be an interesting project with high quality metal music which sometimes reminded me of BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE. The musicians had made an excellent show and in general produced a fairly good impression.

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